enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. English collocations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_collocations

    The words are usually written separately, but some may be hyphenated or be written as one word. Often the meaning of the compound can be guessed by knowing the meaning of the individual words. It is not always simple to detach collocations and compounds. car park; post office; narrow minded; shoelaces; teapot

  3. Pearson language tests - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_Language_Tests

    PTE Young Learners exams are based around the adventures of the Brown family. The exams are theme based and designed to be fun and motivating. At the lower levels they aim to test how well children can use language structures and at the higher levels how well they can use language to complete communicative tasks.

  4. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longman_Dictionary_of...

    A key feature of the LDOCE is its utilization of the Longman Defining Vocabulary, a 2000-word controlled defining vocabulary used to write all of the definitions in the dictionary. [2] This defining vocabulary was developed from Michael West's General Service List of high-frequency words and their most common meanings. [3]

  5. Collocation extraction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocation_extraction

    Collocation extraction is the task of using a computer to extract collocations automatically from a corpus.. The traditional method of performing collocation extraction is to find a formula based on the statistical quantities of those words to calculate a score associated to every word pairs.

  6. Collocational restriction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collocational_restriction

    In linguistic morphology, collocational restriction is the way some words have special meanings in specific two-word phrases. For example the adjective "dry" only means "not sweet" in combination with the noun "wine". Such phrases are often considered idiomatic.

  7. International English Language Testing System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_English...

    Section 1: introduction and interview (4–5 minutes). Test takers may be asked about their home, family, work, studies, hobbies, interests, reasons for taking IELTS exam, and other general topics such as clothing, free time, computers, and the Internet. Section 2: long turn (3–4 minutes). Test takers are given a task card about a particular ...

  8. PTE - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTE

    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... PTE or Pte may refer to: Organizations ... This page was last edited on 24 April 2024, ...

  9. Passenger transport executive - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_transport_executive

    Local government in England was re-organised in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972.The re-organisation created the six metropolitan counties, and the existing four English PTEs were named after, and made to match the borders of the new counties (for example West Midlands PTE was expanded to take on Coventry and Tyneside PTE expanded to include Sunderland becoming Tyne and Wear PTE in the ...